Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.At in area (as defined with a southern Antarctic border), this largest division of the World Ocean and the hydrosphere covers about 46% of Earth's water surface and about 32% of the planet's total surface area, larger than its entire land area (). The centers of both the Water Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere, as well as the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, are in the Pacific Ocean. Ocean circulation (caused by the Coriolis effect) subdivides it into two largely independent volumes of water that meet at the equator, the North Pacific Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean (or more loosely the South Seas). The Pacific Ocean can also be informally divided by the International Date Line into the East Pacific and the West Pacific, which allows it to be further divided into four quadrants, namely the Northeast Pacific off the coasts of North America, the Southeast Pacific off South America, Northwest Pacific off Far Eastern/Pacific Asia, and the Southwest Pacific around Oceania.
The Pacific Ocean's mean depth is . Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, located in the northwestern Pacific, is the deepest known point in the world, reaching a depth of . The Pacific also contains the deepest point in the Southern Hemisphere, the Horizon Deep in the Tonga Trench, at . The third deepest point on Earth, the Sirena Deep, is also located in the Mariana Trench.
The western Pacific has many major marginal seas, including the Philippine Sea, South China Sea, East China Sea, Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, Mar de Grau, Tasman Sea, and the Coral Sea. Provided by Wikipedia
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301by Bogoraz, Vladimir Germanovič (1865-1936). Auteur du texteContributors: “...Jesup North Pacific expedition (1897 / 1903). Éditeur scientifique...”
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302by Thiebot, Jean-Baptiste, Will, Alexis P., Tsukamoto, Shota, Kitaysky, Alexander S., Takahashi, AkinoriContributors: “...North Pacific Research Board...”
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303by Van Pelt, Thomas I., Napp, Jeffrey M., Ashjian, Carin J., Harvey, H. Rodger, Lomas, Michael W., Sigler, Michael F., Stabeno, Phyllis J.Contributors: “...North Pacific Research Board...”
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304by Panteleev, Gleb, Luchin, Vladimir, Nezlin, Nikolay P., Kikuchi, TakashiContributors: “...North Pacific Research Board (NPRB)...”
Published in Polar Science (2013)
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305by Will, Alexis, Takahashi, Akinori, Thiebot, Jean-Baptiste, Martinez, Akashia, Kitaiskaia, Evgenia, Britt, Lyle, Nichol, Dan, Murphy, James, Dimond, Andrew, Tsukamoto, Shota, Nishizawa, Bungo, Niizuma, Yasuaki, Kitaysky, AlexanderContributors: “...North Pacific Research Board...”
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306by Logerwell, Elizabeth A., Busby, Morgan, Mier, Kathryn L., Tabisola, Heather, Duffy-Anderson, JanetContributors: “...North Pacific Research Board...”
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307by Kędra, Monika, Cooper, Lee W., Zhang, Mengjie, Biasatti, Dana, Grebmeier, Jacqueline M.Contributors: “...North Pacific Research Board...”
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308Zooplankton abundance trends and patterns in Shelikof Strait, western Gulf of Alaska, USA, 1990–2017Contributors: “...North Pacific Climate Regimes and Ecosystem Productivity Program...”
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309by Nelson, R. J., Bouchard, C., Fortier, L., Majewski, A. R., Reist, J. D., Præbel, K., Madsen, M. L., Rose, G. A., Kessel, S. T., Divoky, G. J.Contributors: “...North Pacific Research Board...”
Published in Polar Biology (2020)
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310by Romano, Marc D., Renner, Heather M., Kuletz, Kathy J., Parrish, Julia K., Jones, Timothy, Burgess, Hillary K., Cushing, Daniel A., Causey, DouglasContributors: “...North Pacific Research Board...”
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311by Kuletz, Kathy J., Cushing, Daniel A., Osnas, Erik E., Labunski, Elizabeth A., Gall, Adrian E.Contributors: “...North Pacific Research Board...”
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312by Danielson, Seth L., Hennon, Tyler D., Hedstrom, Katherine S., Pnyushkov, Andrey V., Polyakov, Igor V., Carmack, Eddy, Filchuk, Kirill, Janout, Markus, Makhotin, Mikhail, Williams, William J., Padman, LaurieContributors: “...North Pacific Research Board...”
Published in Frontiers in Marine Science (2020)
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313by Barton, Mark B., Moran, John R., Vollenweider, Johanna J., Heintz, Ron A., Boswell, Kevin M.Contributors: “...North Pacific Research Board...”
Published in Polar Biology (2016)
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314by Gall, Adrian E., Morgan, Tawna C., Day, Robert H., Kuletz, Katherine JContributors: “...North Pacific Research Board...”
Published in Polar Biology (2016)
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315by Brennan, Sean R., Fernandez, Diego P., Burns, Jennifer M., Aswad, Stephanie, Schindler, Daniel E., Cerling, Thure E.Contributors: “...North Pacific Research Board...”
Published in Conservation Biology (2019)
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316by Vandersea, Mark W., Kibler, Steven R., Tester, Patricia A., Holderied, Kristine, Hondolero, Dominic E., Powell, Kim, Baird, Steve, Doroff, Angela, Dugan, Darcy, Litaker, R. WayneContributors: “...Kachemak Bay Habitat Focus Area initiative and North Pacific Research Board Project...”
Published in Harmful Algae (2018)
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317by Orben, Rachael A., Irons, David B., Paredes, Rosana, Roby, Daniel D., Phillips, Richard A., Shaffer, Scott A.Contributors: “...North Pacific Research Board...”
Published in Journal of Biogeography (2014)
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318by Cushing, Daniel A., Roby, Daniel D., Irons, David B.Contributors: “...North Pacific Research Board...”
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319by Stabeno, Phyllis J., Mordy, Calvin W., Sigler, Michael F.Contributors: “...North Pacific Research Board...”
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320by Mordy, Calvin W., Bell, Shaun, Cokelet, Edward D., Ladd, Carol, Lebon, Geoff, Proctor, Peter, Stabeno, Phyllis, Strausz, David, Wisegarver, Eric, Wood, KevinContributors: “...North Pacific Research Board...”
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